Lewis, Flora

Lewis, Flora
▪ 2003

      American journalist (b. July 29, 1922, Los Angeles, Calif.—d. June 2, 2002, Paris, France), was a top-notch reporter and columnist who specialized in international affairs. From 1945 she lived mostly in Europe, and she became known for her lucid analyses of developments on the Continent during the second half of the 20th century. Among other things, she reported on the communist takeover of Eastern Europe after World War II, the upheavals in Poland and Hungary in 1956, and the fall of communist governments at the end of the 1980s. Graduating early from high school, she earned (1941) a B.A. degree with honours from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master's degree (1942) from the School of Journalism of Columbia University, New York City. Lewis then took a job with the Associated Press, working in both New York and Washington, D.C., before being sent to London in 1945. There she married Sydney Gruson, who worked for the New York Times. Being prevented by company policy from also being employed by the paper, she worked for a number of other newspapers and then, in 1956, was hired by the Washington Post. In 1967 she began writing a column for Newsday, and in 1972, after she and her husband had separated, she became the Paris bureau chief for the New York Times. Four years later the newspaper made her its European diplomatic correspondent. From 1980 to 1990 she was the foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times, and from 1990 to 1994 she was its senior columnist. Beginning in 1994 and continuing until her death, she worked as a syndicated columnist. Among her books was Europe: Road to Unity, published in 1992.

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